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• gamedeal user

  Feb 11, 2014

  If you have already made experience with RPG Maker games and found them decent enough, you will find this game decent. If you like these games, you will like this one. A classic Top-down RPG game. It shows it was not made with a budget to speak of. This is noticable from the beginning, as the 'Options' menu is the bare minimum. There is no resolution to choose from. Windowed is not recommended because of the resulting low resolution setting. The sound is also restricted to On/Off with no option to choose a specific level. Button remapping is also a thing dearly missed by me. Still, i find it enjoyable. The story (2h in) is written well enough to keep me interested. Both keyboard and mouse controls are viable. Combat is simple with a classic turn based system. If you are someone who needs a lot of options in the options menu and are more used to modern style games, you will be disappointed. But, If you are looking for a classic turn based RPG experience, I can recommend this game to you. It feels quite nostalgic. I've also researched a little bit about this series and found out, that all parts of the "Orbs of Magic" series (this is part 1 of 4) are already available for download at amaranthia.com for 10.99USD, though i recommed getting the game during a Steam sale or promotion, as the standard price is set a little bit too high. In the end, it is a game made by only a few people, enthusiastic about old school rpg's and it shows.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 28, 2015

  Just finished part 1 of this series and boy am I drowsy... Aveyond has a lot of things going for it with some really pleasant sound design, excellent graphics (for a 16-bit style RPG) and fairly interesting characters with some decently writen parts. It really does look nice and as far as I can tell it's all-original. The sound is especially good with some really well done environment ambience and some really memorable tunes. However, the gameplay itself just really turned me away from continuing this series. And by the way, I found out just now that it was a series. Never noticed the part of the description clearly noting this. My fault I guess. I really tried to stay engaged with this game after the first few really well done opening acts, but it steadily became more and more apparent that this game has issues that I don't want to be subscribed to. The character development, game mechanic-wise, is nonexistant. Leveling up has a neglegible impact on combat with every character stepping up through the same present 30 HP tiers. The only other attribute not directly associated with gear is physical strength, and raising this didn't seem to actually change anything in combat. Basically, your stats are your equipment, and there are only a few sets in the game. Grinding is hardly worth it for just a few additional HP. The battles are beyond basic as well. Think Final Fantasy Mystic Quest here. There are 3 status effects, each has maybe 1 or 2 enemies that use it exclusively, and aside from that it's just trading blows until someone runs out of health. There is basically one cheap-shot strategy to beat every boss: keep tripping them every round (it'll almost always succeed) and let the rest of your squad wail on them unimpeded. Or you can just let the vampire wear the curse armor (she finds it almost immediately), and she is then essentially invicible the whole game by way of the drain ability. Speaking of abilities, there are only two character that even do anything besides attack, and they are each basically pigeon-holed into a set function. The healer does absolutely nothing but heal/shield/cure, and the main character can either trip or steal, however I never had the steal ability succeed even once in the whole game. Not sure if it works or not to be honest. I have very little to say about the story really, despite this being one of the key aspects of a good RPG. It starts out really promising with an interesting premise and characters, but for whatever reason it gets about a halfway into it and then devolves into what I would describe as a sequence of random events. You go random places with no real compulsion to do so, you do random things for random people, and then thankfully by plot contrivance one of the random people give you your mcguffin for no real reason. They just happened to have it I guess. The final nail in the coffin is the quest and map design. I'm not sure how long I actually spent playing as I went AFK a couple hours here and there to do other things, but I'd estimate it was at least 5 ot 6 hours. Take out the time spent walking endless back and forth from opposite ends of the game and I bet you could cut it down to 1/4 of that. So. Much Walking. You have no idea how much uneventful walkthrough you're in for with this game. There is a fast travel system, but it is prohibitively expensive and less than adequate for the amount of back-and-forth the quests have you doing. Aveyond looks nice, sounds nice, and had potential at the start, but the story just sort of wanders off halfway through and sadly I found the gameplay to be just flat out boring. I'll be interested to see what this dev does next though, and hopefully they'll put a bit of poilish on those combat mechanics and come up with something that's as enjoyable to play as it is to see and hear.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 9, 2014

  Really enjoying it so far. It's a nice breath of fresh air as i don't play these kind of games often. Reminds me of the fun i use to have when playing the original Pokemon games in the 90's. Who cares about how the game was made? It's fun and i'm enjoying it. Thats all that matters. Something i will add after progressing into the game. You may find yourself getting lost quite easily, as being able to find some of the locations in this game rely on whether you have a good memory.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 2, 2018

  Aveyond 3 Is a great RPG. It has a rich story, fun hidden goodies, good battle system, and nice balance between story and battling. It's a shame STEAM doesn't currently carry their previous installments in the series (Ahriman's Prophecy, Aveoynd: Rhen's Quest, and Aveyond 2: Ean's Quest). Knowing the stories from those previous games makes Aveyond 3 make for a richer story experience and ties in a lot of things you otherwise wouldn't have known about but none of which are essential to playing this game. This is the only game which is split into Chapters/Parts. I don't know why Amaranth Games decided to do it that way or why after having done it they couldn't just combine the parts into one game but there it is. As a result of this the end of this specific chapter/part feels a little abrupt. If you are interested in playing this game I would recommend purchasing all four chapters/parts to Aveyond 3 so that you can continue your quest through the whole game. It offers an option to save your characters at the end of each chapter for use in the next.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 1, 2014

  I'm not downvoting this game because of its engine. It's made using RPG maker, so naturally, the controls and visuals are going to be limitted. However, this isn't a problem if a game makes up for it through gameplay. Unfortunately, this one doesn't. It starts out well enough, but a couple hours in, it becomes one wild goose chase after the next. Let me elaborate. As a general rule of thumb, if the only alternative to searching everywhere for the one obscure way forward, after reading all relevant text, is to use Google, then the player is not being given enough direction. This is especially true if that one way forward involves traipsing across half a continent [i]and back[/i]. I understand this was a common way to artifically lengthen games back in the NES/SNES era where cartridges' data storage was limited, but we are no longer in that era, nor was it really a good idea to begin with. A game does not need to be long to be good; look at Portal, for example. I was forced into this situation no less than three times before I gave up and decided my gaming time was better spent elsewhere.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 10, 2014

  I've scratched my original review entirely now that I've finished the game. From what I understand this is the first part (of four) of the third game in the Aveyond series; a curious place to start for Steam gamers unfamiliar with Amaranth's work. As with most games made with RPG Maker, writing quality weighs heavily upon whether or not a title is worth your time and money. Here Lord of Twilight is thankfully relatively solid. Most attempts at humor fall flat, but character dialogue is decent enough, if occassionally a bit unnatural. The overarching plot is kind of all over the place at this point, and the game ends on a really weird note, but of course this is only the introductory chapter of a larger narrative. Graphics are nothing to write home about, with much of what's on display being RM stock assets. Character designs are attractive though, and the handful of original assets are done well. Map design is occasionally frustrating, particularly in towns, which have a tendency to be needlessly convoluted and complex (a lot of dead ends, no shadowing to indicate changes in elevation, etc). Many games using this engine are plagued with slowdown, but Aveyond runs smoothly throughout. The soundtrack is really the standout feature here, featuring catchy town themes and one of the better battle tunes I've heard in recent memory. Overall I would cautiously recommend Lord of Twilight. It's quite rough around the edges in parts, but I enjoyed myself enough to stick it out and am curious to see what happens in the next installment.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 10, 2014

  Pretty fun game even though i got lost for hours and managed to complete the game. Too bad it has to come out in parts. I was enjoying it until the end credits ruin everything. 8/10
• gamedeal user

  Jan 5, 2022

  I really wanted to like this game, because I enjoy indie RPG Maker titles. But this game is just so tedious and slow. The story, as it were, feels very bland and one dimensional. The characters I've met so far are pretty bland and nonsensical. And the combat... ugh. Even for RPG Maker this battle system is atrocious. The difficulty spikes frequently throughout the game, but not in a fun way. It just feels like enemies do way too much damage and your characters do way too little, and I'm constantly keeping equipment current and making sure I get a level or two in each location. Also, navigating towns is a gigantic pain. Most town layouts are winding and labyrinthine, and townspeople and even BIRDS will stop you from moving forward if they wander even remotely into your path, meaning you constantly have to walk around these sentient obstacles or wait for them to move if there's no way around them. Overall, I just can't find it in me to finish this game, and I don't have any desire to play the rest of the series anymore. It's a shame, because as I mentioned I enjoy many RPG Maker titles. But not this one.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 2, 2014

  This game is just alright and thats being nice. Intially it was fine, however as you proceed you discover it really lacks depth, ingame looks shoddy lacking creativity, the gameplay is a snooze and the so called humor, perhaps it's there if you're 10. And the the price certainly should not be 10$ it's not even the full story just a part which is super dissapointing. This game is good for a rainy day, however paying full price is not worth it. I may give the sequel a try if it goes on sale significantly. When it comes to games like this I just can't resist, unfortunately however there is almost always, too high of an expectation and a less than average gameplay experience as a result of these rpg maker games. Based on my play through of the beloved final fantasy and golden sun series and many others, growing up. Golden sun being one of my all time favorite jrpg games its understandable how many games seem to underdeliver. :D Understandably this may have been a typical, low budget, rpg-maker game it still could have been better. This game was dissapointing, But still worth the try if onsale. 4/10